Common sense…. imagine that!? From a presidential candidate?
I mean what we want is a opportunity for the Florida and Michigan delegates to participate in the convention, to be seated, but, well, but what we don’t think makes sense is for example, the Michigan delegation to be seated when my name wasn’t on the ballot. I saw an interview where Senator Clinton suggested that we had competed in this race. I don’t know exactly how she drew that conclusion since I didn’t step foot in Michigan and my name wasn’t on the ballot, so the notion that somehow it would be fair for her to obtain significantly more delegates than me in a contest where we both agreed it wouldn’t count, I wasn’t on the ballot, and I didn’t campaign there, just defies logic. I think you could ask my 6 year old whether that was fair, and she would probably be able to say no that isn’t. So…well, what we’ve tried to do is not push one way of resolving it, we just laid out some criteria, our campaign has been in conversations with the Michigan delegation, the Florida delegation, and the DNC, and, you know, talked about what options are out there, and I think they’re going to be explored in the next several weeks. We’re not going to make the final decision on it, and I’ll abide by whatever rules the DNC lays out.
why don’t just take a poll at the beginning of this whole contest 13 months ago. We could have saved ourselves millions of dollars and a lot of travel time, and she would have won by 20 points, because nobody campaigned, and she would have been the designated Democratic nominee. The whole point of campaigning is that the voters actually start getting to know who the candidates are. If we had made that determination in all these states, just put my name on the ballot without me campaigning or running any significant ads, I would have lost by 20 points across the country, right? I don’t think anybody would think that was fair.
it wasn’t just me, it was the entire Florida House Delegation, including Clinton supporters who expressed concern about it. In Oregon they’ve got a mail in system, but it’s something that’s been in place for a long time, and they’ve scanned all the signatures of all the registered voters so that there’s a verification system in place. I know that some of the Florida folks are also concerned that, since there’s a large number of Florida residents who don’t live in Florida during the summer they would also be missing and disenfranchised. So the logistical concerns about a mail in system are not unique to us, actually many Clinton’s most prominent backers share those same concerns.
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